Archive for category Biogas

California Egg Farm Installs Chicken Poo-Powered Fuel Cell

Posted by Mircea in Biogas on August 19, 2010

FuelCell Energy, one of the companies promoting alternative energy sources, announced the sale of a chicken poo-powered fuel cell to an egg farm in California. The 1.4-megawatt fuel cell system will produce enough energy to supply the farm’s operations.

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Bio-Bug Becomes Britain’s First Car to Run on Methane Gas Produced from Human Waste

Posted by Mike in Biogas on August 5, 2010

The team modified a 2 litre VW Beetle convertible to run on both compressed methane gas and conventional fuel. It can also travel 10,000 miles by the power produced from sewage collected from just 70 homes.

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Milk Company From Ukraine Producing 1.3 MW of Power With 4,000 Cows And a CHP System

Posted by Ovidiu in Biogas on July 16, 2010

From the former block of communist countries, Ukraine stands up and produces energy from the cow farms they own. The Ukrainian Milk Company Ltd, near Kiev, the country’s capital, has just implemented a CHP (combined heat and power) generator powered by 4,000 cows.

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70 Mumbai Buses Running on Hydrogen Mixed With CNG by End of 2010

Posted by Ovidiu in Biogas, Hydrogen Power on June 1, 2010

India’s largest bus manufacturer, Ashok Leyland, is going to implement a 6-liter engine that will run on clean natural gas (CNG) enriched with hydrogen, making it the first bus powered by an internal combustion engine aided by hydrogen.

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Bacteria Could Make Sewage Treatment Plants Turn From High Energy Consumers to Producers

Posted by Ovidiu in Biogas on May 13, 2010

Sewage treatment plants always consume energy to filter water (around 44 watt-hours per day per person). They use three types of bacteria and energy to pump oxygen for the first type of bacteria and methanol for the second. Adding the fact that methanol is also produced through an energy-intensive process… you can pull the conclusions.

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New Sources of Combustible Ice Could Power China for 90 Years

Posted by Mike in Biogas on March 12, 2010

China has recently discovered major deposits of combustible ice on the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. According to the researchers, this new source of low-emission fuel could power China for 90 years.

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Colorado Company Uses Concentrated Solar Power to Transform Biomass into Gasoline

Posted by Ovidiu in Biogas, Solar Power on March 11, 2010

Sundrop Fuels, a Louisville, CO, -based company has developed a method of using concentrated solar power to heat the biomass to 1200 or 1300 ºC, and even produce syngas more efficiently than the standard technology, which uses only 30 to 35 percent of the biomass.

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Hell’s Gate in Turkmenistan: Burning Precious Energy for Nothing Since 1971

Posted by Ovidiu in Biogas on February 11, 2010

This hole (initially a gas-filled cave) has been named “Hell’s Gate”, for obvious reasons. It was discovered when some geologists have been searching for natural gas, in Turkmenistan’s Karakum desert, in Darvasa. The ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a large hole with a diameter of about 50-100 meters.

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Biomass Plant to Generate 49KW of Green Electricity to 50,000 Homes

Posted by Mike in Biogas, Green Buildings on December 20, 2009

The project led by Bio Energy Investments will be constructed on the banks of River Tees in Teesside. It will generate enough energy to power up to 50,000 homes and will save 140,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually through the use of carbon neutral woodchip.

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Dutch Company Generates Cow-Manure Power to 1,100 Homes

Posted by Ovidiu in Biogas on November 14, 2009

I have been to the Netherlands this summer, in my honeymoon. While you travel down their free and super-strictly speed limited highways (120km/h), you’ll see a lot of cows on the left… and on the right (the pic above is taken by my wife).

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